Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature

Ojaide, Tanure

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“…Sci-fi and Afrofuturism use hard news and investigative news as sources (Bozak, 2019), themes or techniques to create stories that re-imagine the past, present and future of Nigeria and its diaspora from a Black perspective, using science, technology and African mythology and history as sources of inspiration and empowerment (Adichie, 2013;Okorafor, 2010;Onuzo, 2018). Sci-fi and Afrofuturism also provide feedback and impact on hard news and investigative news, as they critique, challenge or subvert the dominant narratives and representations of the Nigerian reality, as well as engage with the issues of identity, power and resistance in the postcolonial and postmodernist context (Eze, 2014;Gillespie, 2021;Ojaide, 2016;Uwasomba, 2017).…”

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“…Second, Nigerian fiction has been shaped by various historical, cultural and political factors such as colonialism, independence, civil war, dictatorship, democracy, globalisation and postmodernism (Achebe, 1975;Nwakanma, 2005;Oyebode, 2019). Third, postmodernism, in particular, has been a significant influence on the Nigerian fiction tradition, as it challenges the notions of truth, reality, identity and representation that underlie the conventional modes of writing and reading (Eze, 2014;Ojaide, 2016;Uwasomba, 2017). Fourth, one of the interesting aspects of postmodernist fiction in Nigeria is its interaction with news genres and journalism, which are forms of communication that aim to inform, educate and entertain the public about current events and issues.…”

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Exploring the Trends and Development of News Genres and Fiction Formats: A Rhetorical Genre Theory Perspective

2024

Media Education (Mediaobrazovanie)

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The paper aims to contribute to the advancement of the theoretical and conceptual development of the field of media and literary studies, as well as to address the gaps, limitations or controversies in the existing literature. The paper also explores how news genre and fiction format affect the level and quality of interaction between the writers and readers of news stories, as well as the impact and influence of news stories on the Nigerian society. The paper uses a qualitative content analysis to analyse the news articles and fiction books that are selected for this study, according to the criteria of news genres, fiction formats and interaction. The paper finds that the hybrid fiction format is the most consistent and popular among the news genres, as it combines and blends elements from different fiction formats. The paper also finds that the investigative news genre is the most engaging and appealing among the news genres, as it provides in-depth, original and exposé reports of hidden or controversial matters. The paper argues that news stories and journalism genres are not neutral or objective, but rather social and rhetorical constructs that shape and are shaped by the communicative practices and purposes of discourse communities. The paper concludes that news stories and journalism genres are dynamic and evolving, as they respond to the changing social, political and technological contexts. The paper also discusses the implications, limitations and contributions of the research for the field of genre and media studies.

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Exploring the Trends and Development of News Genres and Fiction Formats: A Rhetorical Genre Theory Perspective

2024

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“…The relationship between the Global South, here Africa, and the Global North as precisely defined geopolitical and cultural spaces have developed differently in the African literary texts. The discourses on the global concepts of transnationalism, transculturalism and people migrating overseas in search of a better life find considerable amount of attention questioning the very logic of the binary, 'indigeneity' and 'globalization' [5]. In the special volume of a scholastic journal African Literature Today, titled New Directions in African Literature: A Review, a plentiful articles provide a strong opinion on the position of African literature at the end of the 20th century.…”

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Globalization and Black Identity: Interrogating Local & Translocal Imagination in the New Transatlantic African Writings Kehinde and Americanah

Gilani¹

2022

International Journal of Humanities, Management and Social Scie

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Geography plays a significant role in shaping the identity of an individual, especially, African ‘black’ identity. In the globalized era, black identity does not imply a stable signifier of the African race but is substantially contingent. The global interconnectedness has rendered the communication between different community’s complex and challenging. The diasporic encounters of Emecheta and Adichie draw a separate yet linked legacies of their local/translocal black experiences from which they elicit their understanding of the two global realms, Global North and Global South. The research article critically analyzes the major concerns of race and black identity in the select novels, Kehinde and Americanah. The argument tries to bring to the forefront two conflicting cultural and political forces, African and American/European, simultaneously transcending and celebrating the local and the translocal. As a consequence, the subjective identities of the character’s act as variables that perceive the racial difference on the one hand, and on the other, the difference helps contribute in their identity formation in hybrid spaces like America and Britain.

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“…Three generations of African literary writers have been acknowledged by scholars such as Adesanmi and Dunton (2005), Nnolim (2009) and Ojaide (2015). 4…”

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A Literary Turn in African Studies

Acheampong¹

2022

The Thinker

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The literary turn in African Studies is conceptualized here not as entailing the shift to textual/ discourse analysis pioneered by Edward Said, but as how African literary figures have contributed to the advancement of decolonization/ decoloniality in African Studies. Its point of departure is the “decolonial turn”, which refers to the varied patterns of decolonial thought emerging from different geographic and epistemic sites. Although there are sometimes divergences among these patterns of thought, the salient point ofconvergence is their acknowledgement of coloniality as a problem haunting the world today, and of the task of decolonization/ decoloniality as unfinished. There is, however, a tendency among certain scholars to trace the genealogy of decolonial thinking, ignoring the various contributions to decolonial thinking from other sites. This article attempts to fill this crucial gap by accounting, specifically, for an African literary genealogy of decolonial thinking through the lens of the concept of “generations.” The ideas of generations and turns in literary studies in particular, and African Studies in general, are complicated by the overlapping ideologicaldispositions of the writers.

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Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature

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Exploring the Trends and Development of News Genres and Fiction Formats: A Rhetorical Genre Theory Perspective

Exploring the Trends and Development of News Genres and Fiction Formats: A Rhetorical Genre Theory Perspective

Globalization and Black Identity: Interrogating Local & Translocal Imagination in the New Transatlantic African Writings Kehinde and Americanah

A Literary Turn in African Studies

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